world war

Example Sentences

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The shift is most enduring and consequential across Europe, where the trans-Atlantic partnership that kept the peace after two calamitous world wars is at risk of unraveling.

From The Wall Street Journal

In any case, the code breakers went home soon enough, and didn’t return till it was obvious that Hitler was about to start a world war.

From Literature

Prior to NATO’s establishment, the European continent had suffered two back-to-back world wars that killed as many as 80 million people.

From The Wall Street Journal

After two disastrous world wars devastated the continent in the first half of the 20th century, many European countries reprogrammed their political identities to emphasize rules and compromises over muscle-flexing.

From The Wall Street Journal

America has been through plenty of dark times in its history, from a Civil War to depressions and two bloody world wars that leveled much of the world.

From Salon